19th of November should be a very proud moment for Mysoreans. On this very day three years ago, a courageous Manjunath Shanmugam gave up his life for a noble cause. As we all know, Manju, working as a sales manager for IOCL at Lakhimpur, took the menace of corruption in retail petroleum distribution system head-on, and had to pay the price.Very rarely do we find such a courage, bravery, and valor in the modern youth.
We Mysoreans should be proud of his association with our city. He did his under graduation from SJCE and went on to join IIML. I hear that he opted to join the PSU, IOCL by choice. He believed that he could make a "change". I am proud that I am from the same college that he was. What surprised me the most was that he also happens to be from CS branch. I was discussing about him with one of my colleagues at SJCE who also happens to be his classmate. I was told that he was like any other "dude" during his college days. He used to waste his time like most of us used to do. He used to prepare "chits" for internals! Typical of any JCite. Looks like something @ IIML changed his way of looking at things.
His contribution is more relevant in the current context that ever.Transparency International, in its latest nation wide survey, places Karnataka at the top vis-a-vis corruption. What is more worrying is the fact that people seem to accept it as a part of life. Corruption seems to have spread its wings from womb to tomb. It is high time we wake up and make our voice be heard.I only wish we had more shanmugams. Manju, we are proud of you and will not let your sacrifice go in vain!
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